1 Stay informed

And we can also be reached on IRC using the #ghentfpg channel on freenode.

2 Hackathon

We organized BelHac, the first Belgian Haskell Hackathon on November 5 to November 7, 2010. More information can be found on this page.

3 Meeting information

The sixth Ghent FPG Meeting still needs to be planned. It will most likely be held at the end of January 2011.

3.1 Hackathon Meeting (Nov. 5 2010)

The fifth meeting was held during the Haskell Hackathon. The theme of the meeting was "Functional Programming in Industry". We had three talks by people who use Functional Programming in their respective companies:

Duncan Coutts (Well-Typed) - Who talked about Well-Typed and how they make a living writing Haskell code.

Romain Slootmaekers (Incubaid) - Who talked about how hard it is to get new ideas incorporated into existing companies.

Don Stewart (Galois) - Who talked about how Galois is succesfully using Haskell for their projects.

3.2 October 7 2010 Meeting

Our fourth meeting will be held on October 7, 2010, from 19:00 onward. Same location as the previous meetings: Ghent University Technicum, St.-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, Left Entrance. The program is as follows: